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The orphan trains : placing out in America /
A study of the system known as "placing out," which was practiced in America between 1853 and 1929, in which children, and in some cases women and entire families, were relocated from crowded urban areas and placed in homes in the west, traveling on orphan trains to their new lives.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©1992.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | A study of the system known as "placing out," which was practiced in America between 1853 and 1929, in which children, and in some cases women and entire families, were relocated from crowded urban areas and placed in homes in the west, traveling on orphan trains to their new lives. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (248 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585003602 9780585003603 |